A Quick and Comprehensive Guide to Type

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Bad Doggy — practicing “Tomorrow” with a human Sandy

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Dear News Media, When Reporting Poll Results…

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Amherst College launches open-access scholarly press

…Amherst thinks that there may be long-term gains — both for scholarship and the economics of academic publishing — by publishing books that are subject to traditional peer review, edited with rigor and then published in digital form only, completely free. Some university presses issue some of their works in free digital formats. And Rice…

Benedict XVI (Pontifex) on Twitter

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Dennis G. Jerz | Associate Professor of English -- New Media Journalism, Seton Hill University | jerz.setonhill.edu

For New Acquisitions, UMD Libraries Choose Ebooks by Default

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